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...everyone was in a mood to celebrate. Environmentalists decry the busts as a desecration of nature. New Republic writer Alex Heard identified Gutzon Borglum, Rushmore's eccentric creator, as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And the Sioux Indians charge that the memorial is sculpted from sacred land that was stolen by the government. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Ziolkowski family since 1948 has been carving an even grander likeness of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior, from a nearby mountain...
...sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, on the other hand, posed for a Rapid City, S. Dak., bulb squeezer and got more, or less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand as that of his own George Washington, fills the wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly...
...death mask of Holmes, done by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, greets visitors as they enter the exhibit. This life-size stone mask has ghostly quality of authenticity, giving the impression of a slumbering Holmes presiding over the show...
...Borglum had big ideas too. At first, he planned to carve nearly the whole Confederate army on the mountain. He worked on models, and in 1923 was given a $250,000 contract for the first seven figures. But he was thrown off the job in 1925 because his patrons felt he was not working as hard as he might. Borglum retreated in pique to hack out the second largest sculpture in the world-Mount Rushmore...
Another sculptor, Augustus Lukeman, took over. He began by blasting off the mountain any Borglum work that interfered with his own. Then he banged away at the Georgia granite until funds ran out in mid-1928. He died in 1935. The unfinished memorial was left to the wind and wildlife...